Author: danielsh Date: Fri Jul 31 23:51:02 2015 New Revision: 1693673 URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1693673 Log: * docs/release-notes/1.9.html (#svn-info-item): Initial content.
Modified: subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.9.html Modified: subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.9.html URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.9.html?rev=1693673&r1=1693672&r2=1693673&view=diff ============================================================================== --- subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.9.html (original) +++ subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.9.html Fri Jul 31 23:51:02 2015 @@ -754,8 +754,49 @@ support reading or writing FSX repositor title="Link to this section">¶</a> </h4> -<p>### TODO -</p> +<p>The <tt>svn info</tt> command can now display the value of one of the fields +and nothing else, for easier consumption by scripts.</p> + +<p>Subversion 1.8 and earlier had two output modes: the default, human-oriented +output, mode and the XML mode for scripted use. Subversion 1.9 adds a third +output mode, whereby exactly one attribute will be displayed:</p> + +<pre> +## Display the youngest revision of a repository: +% svn info --show-item=revision https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk +1693514 + +## Find the root directory of a working copy: +% svn info --show-item=wc-root +/home/jrandom/src/svn/trunk +</pre> + +<p>Incidentally, Subversion will also attempt to offer the correct selector name +if the argument was misspelled:</p> + +<pre> +% svn info --show-item=wcroot +svn: E205000: Try 'svn help info' for more information +svn: E205000: 'wcroot' is not a valid value for --show-item; did you mean 'wc-root'? +</pre> + +<p>The list of valid arguments to <tt>--show-item</tt> may be found in its help +message, <tt>svn help info</tt>. As of 1.9, the valid values are +<tt>kind</tt>, +<tt>url</tt>, +<tt>relative-url</tt>, +<tt>repos-root-url</tt>, +<tt>repos-uuid</tt>, +<tt>revision</tt>, +<tt>last-changed-revision</tt>, +<tt>last-changed-date</tt>, +<tt>last-changed-author</tt>, +and +<tt>wc-root</tt>.</p> + +<p>The <tt>--no-newline</tt> argument instructs <tt>svn</tt> +not to emit a cosmetic newline (<tt>\n</tt>) after the value.</p> + </div> <!-- svn-info-item --> <div class="h4" id="svn-propget-no-newline">